They're pretty inexpensive, easy to learn how to use and they make good home defense weapons.”

The group has its sights on donating shotguns to between 50 and 100 people, but only after they undergo training and pass a background check.

The controversial initiative falls in line with the organization’s overall plan of “empowering neighborhoods” in other cities, such as Dallas, Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Tucson, where Gabrielle Giffords was infamously shot in 2011, along with six other people who died.

Coplen says, “We're giving folks the tools with which to defend their life, liberty and property, training them how to use the weapons and empowering citizens.”

The Armed Citizen Project has already made a point of handing out guns to single mothers and the elderly, but it’s never given weapons to a large population of one specific neighborhood.